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Re: Bug#289748: zsh: menu navigation is suboptimal

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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Benjamin Hill (Mako)" <mako@xxxxxxxxxx>, 289748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Bug#289748: zsh: menu navigation is suboptimal
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:39:04 +0100
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You wrote:
> The effect of this is that it can make it very hard to select the last
> item in a long multi-column menu of completions. For date-based
> organization of data in a directory, this can be particularly
> frustrating.

It is possible to get straight to the last item from the first by using
the reverse-menu-complete editor command. I bind that to shift-tab:

  bindkey '\e[Z' reverse-menu-complete

For the behaviour you want, with the up and down keys, you can try the
following bindings:

  bindkey -M menuselect '\e[B' menu-complete
  bindkey -M menuselect '\e[A' reverse-menu-complete

Note that your terminal may generate different escape sequences from
those keys.

Oliver

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Bug#289748: zsh: menu navigation is suboptimal
  - From: Geoff Wing

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